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What is this thing?

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[Challenge-Solved!] another one on the bus before work, don't know when I'll be able to confirm guesses (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Spoilers are like this >! !<

That only works within the Sync app, not Lemmy as a whole. As plantsmakemehappy posted further up in the thread, the Lemmy markdown for spoilers is as follows:

Tap here to reveal the secret.Hidden content

Which is rendered as:

Tap here to reveal the secret.Hidden content

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How is that not what I wrote?

!this should be a spoiler!<

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is not. This is how your comment appears on the official Lemmy web interface:

The first ">" is treated as the markdown for a block quote, and the rest of the text is rendered verbatim.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Boo

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

...

"Aah!"